The new Israeli ambassador is arriving in Cairo on Monday. I wish him a pleasant stay, just as pleasant as his predecessor’s. And we’ll be storming your embassy soon again till you get the message: YOU ARE NOT WELCOME IN EGYPT.
Israeli students can protest high prices of housing rent. Israeli doctors can go on strike over work conditions. But not a single sector in the Israeli labor and student movements would voice criticism of what their state is doing to the Palestinians few kilometers away from where they are. The Israeli working class is a hopeless case. It’s totally under the control of Zionism from the inception of the state of the Israel. Forget about a “revolution” in apartheid Israel. Yes, they are engaged in class struggle, but all Israelis are united at the end of the day in their material, economic, political interests versus the Palestinians.
This apartheid state must be dismantled. And the Egyptian working class holds the key to liberation…
There will be a protest tomorrow Wednesday, May 18 · 4:00pm, at Tahrir Square, in solidarity with Tarek Shalaby and all Egyptian protesters detained by the army and police during the Israeli Embassy protest…
Essam Sharaf’s cabinet is re-negotiating the prices of gas exports to Israel. That’s not good enough. We need to sever all relations with the apartheid regime in Israel.
The “Supporters of the Palestinian Revolution” Group is calling for a march on Wednesday 27 April, 2:30pm, from Cairo University to the Israeli embassy in Giza, demanding severing of diplomatic and economic relations with Israel, and to restore full rights for Palestinian refugees in Egypt.
The Supporters of the Palestinian Revolution were leftist-led student societies that mushroomed on the Egyptian university campuses in the beginning of the 1970s, and was credit with the student revolt 1971-3. Many of today’s veteran dissidents were members of that group when they were students. Now after the January 2011 revolution, these societies are being revived once again.
And they tell you the Egyptian revolution is domestic and has nothing to do with Israel. Hah!
Hossam el-Hamalawy is an Egyptian journalist from Cairo
hossam [at] arabawy [dot] org
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